The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced alarm on Tuesday (Feb 20), about the measles cases that have been rising so quickly. Last year, there were over 306,000 cases worldwide, which is a 79 per cent rise from 2022.

WHO reported a 79 per cent increase in global measles cases last year

Measles soared in Europe last year, with the 30,000 reported cases 30 times higher than for the previous year, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday calling for "urgent" vaccination efforts.

Measles cases surge 30-fold In Europe in 2023: WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) and US Health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Wednesday that the world now faces an impending threat of measles spreading in numerous locations internationally due to the COVID-19 pandemic's ongoing impact on vaccine coverage and impaired disease surveillance.

40mn children missed measles vaccine in 2021; disease is now an imminent global threat, warn CDC and WHO

With ten deaths over the last month and a sharp spike in cases, India’s financial capital city Mumbai is staring at a measles outbreak. Until November 24, 2022, Mumbai has reported 252 confirmed cases.

Mumbai scrambles to contain measles outbreak as virus kills 10 children

A raging measles outbreak in Afghanistan infected tens of thousands and killed more than 150 people last month alone, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday, warning of more deaths.

Measles cases, deaths surging in Afghanistan, tens of thousands infected: WHO

The number of children sickened by measles in 2019 was the highest in 23 years, according to new data published by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

870,000 measles cases in 2019, the highest number in 23 years

Continuing with its 'neighbourhood first' policy, India on Thursday supplied Maldives 30,000 doses of Measles vaccines within 72-hours of the request by the country.

After emergency request, India sends 30 thousand measles vaccines to Maldives within 72-hours

The world is backsliding in the fight against measles, which can disable or kill, especially children, with a record number of cases recorded up to August only since 2006 and nearly three times as many cases than in July 2018 at that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The biggest outbreaks of the highly contagious disease -- one person with measles can spread it up to 18 non-immunized other people -- are raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (155,460 cases), Madagascar (127,454) and Ukraine (54,246) it said.

Global measles cases three times higher than last year - WHO

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